Madison Lisa Equestrian

21/09/2024

Looking for a trainer that doesn’t quite follow the status-quo? Someone who believes the best trainer for your horse is YOU?

I am proud to be officially re-opening my books to clients around the 📍Jimboomba area and surrounds (travel rates apply).

Very limited spaces available, and services will include:

🐴 Problem Solving
🐴 Starting Under Saddle
🐴 Sales Preparation
🐴 Re-Education

Methods that advocate for horse health and mentality. Multiple disciplines covered, get in contact to discuss more.

07/02/2024

You’ll find most gadgets have no place in my training regime 😉

🧠EQUINE TRIVIA ANSWER🧠
This may cause some controversy, but it’s important that you know there are ZERO 👌 benefits to using these restrictive aids. Here’s just a few reasons why:
1: Backwards pressure on the head will compress the neck and the horse looses their power from behind. The horse needs the hindend to move straight.
2: The horse falls onto the front end creating choppy steps and compromising their balance, vision and breathing.
3: Posture is dynamic. Meaning a horse should not be forced into a frame. Even the best looking posture with ruin a body if the horse cannot move or relax their muscles. A fixed headset does not build fitness. It builds stiffness.
4: The head and neck are communicating what is happening in the body. When the body is in balance the head and neck will follow. But micro-managing the head will only create tension and make the horse brace, making you fight harder with the body.
5: The horse will build muscle, yes. But not in the areas we desire. It will make for an overdeveloped neck and no engagement through the thoracic sling. This can lead to issues such as; kissing spine, tendon injuries, hock and stifle pain, nerve compression, and so much more.
There are no quick fixes! Only correct training. Headset should not be focused on too deeply. Ride and work with the body and the head and neck will fall into place.

26/01/2024

Let horses move past their “story”

When you’re in the thick of it, the story is real. The behaviors can be explained by a past, near or far. Some of it may be valid, some may be our interpretation, some may be best guesses. Either way, here we are.

But horses have a strong desire to be balanced. If given half a chance, most of them, I’ve found, adapt. Some need a little more help, some have a missing ingredient that helps them complete the recipe of wellness. But usually, people are in the way.

I’ve been that person too. It’s easy. You tell the story over and over - “she was traumatized.” “You won’t be able to catch her, she hates men.” “She doesn’t trailer.” “She had an accident while tying so she doesn’t tie.” These things may have been true at one time, but without adapting our awareness to the current moment day by day, moment by moment, we so often keep the horses progress stifled.

I can’t tell you how many troubled horses I’ve had that I tip toed around, told the public to watch out, and one day discovered them calmly standing. Before my very eyes they had turned into another horse, and I was so busy talking about them I hadn’t noticed who they were now.

17/01/2024

Some thoughts on my mind recently…

As a horse owner and trainer, I feel a burden for my passion. Often the expenses, the early mornings and late nights, success and failures of being an “equestrian” make me question whether or not I want to keep going.

But when I see corruption in the highest levels of our sport, I feel angry.

When I see outdated (and downright abusive) training methods used by trainers taking money from people who don’t know better, I feel cheated.

When I see people putting winnings and status above their horses welfare, I feel helpless.

When I see young undeveloped horses being ridden, raced, jumped, I feel heartbroken.

I feel the heavy heavy burden, that if I DON’T, who will? If I bow out, who will teach the next generation? Who will show ethical methods that create connection and healthy horses?

Who will challenge our stewards of this sport to be better, and hold higher standards? Who will pave the way for new rules to be put in place?

Who will support all the young minds wanting to know how to love their horses the right way? Who will teach them how to be their horses teacher?

I know there are trainers out there like me! We share a vision for a different future in the equestrian world, we want the best for all horses, and a community that supports one another.

But still in this current day and age, we are not the majority. I encounter scenarios daily, in person and online that shatters me. That makes me realise we HAVE to be the change.

So I encourage you to stick with it. Choosing the “right” way isn’t always easy. It takes longer, costs more, and challenges us. But nothing beats knowing your horses are happy, healthy and connected with you.

- Madison 🐴

01/01/2024

Happy New Year to all of our clients and followers! 🎉🍾

2024 goals include better weather for all…

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